Controversial technology: The Chunnel and the laparoscopic retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND)

BJU International

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 950-959

  Schwartz, Michael J ^a   Kavoussi, Louis R ^a  

^a The Arthur Smith Institute for Urology   (United States)

Author keywords

laparoscopic; lymph nodes; lymphadenectomy; RPLND; testes cancer

Indexed keywords

CANCER STAGING; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; TESTIS CANCER; TREATMENT INDICATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; PROCEDURES; RETROPERITONEUM; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TRENDS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77956625220     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2010.09659.x     Document Type: Review

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